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Conservation Quotes

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Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
Chief Seattle

Authors on Conservation Quotes: Aldo Leopold E. O. Wilson Gifford Pinchot Jacques Yves Cousteau Walther Bothe Steve Irwin Chief Seattle Mollie Beattie Tom Vilsack David R. Brower Herbert M. Shelton Gerald Durrell Rachel Carson Dalai Lama Mahatma Gandhi Alan Clark Hugh Hammond Bennett Richard Branson Dennis Gabor Jane Goodall Veerappa Moily Prince Charles Lamar S. Smith Sigmar Gabriel Dennis Weaver Jimmy Carter Marjory Stoneman Douglas Terence McKenna Edward Norton Gale Norton Ansel Adams Roger Tory Peterson Charles Schumer
2.
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
Gifford Pinchot

3.
If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.
Jane Goodall

4.
Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.
Jimmy Carter

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What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.
Gale Norton

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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
Ansel Adams

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In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.
Gerald Durrell

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The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency
Gifford Pinchot

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon

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Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Dennis Gabor

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When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
Theodore Roosevelt

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Conservation must become before recreation.
Prince Charles

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Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
Steve Irwin

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Life should be built on the conservation of energy.
Herbert M. Shelton

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The sea is the universal sewer.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

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We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.
Dennis Weaver

18.
Nothing is more conservative than conservation
Russell Kirk

19.
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
Aldo Leopold

20.
Conservation is now a dead word.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

21.
If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature
Mollie Beattie

22.
Conservation of energy also protects our environment.
Lamar S. Smith

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Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.
Sigmar Gabriel

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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
Aldo Leopold

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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
Rachel Carson

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Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.
James Lovelock

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...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.
Aldo Leopold

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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
Walther Bothe

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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
Aldo Leopold

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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Arthur Erickson

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I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.
John Green

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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
Christopher Lasch

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I'm a little different from all those conservation types.
Jim Fowler

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Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.
Dalai Lama

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Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.
Roger Tory Peterson

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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.
Charles Schumer

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It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.
Richard Branson

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From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.
Hugh Hammond Bennett

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You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.
David R. Brower

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The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.
Alan Clark

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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
Veerappa Moily

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Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.
Aldo Leopold

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If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.
Terence McKenna

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I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
Edward Norton

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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
Edward Abbey

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That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.
E. O. Wilson

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If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.
Thomas Friedman

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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
David Attenborough

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The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.
E. O. Wilson

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Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .
Aldo Leopold